I added myself and will add the plotting tasks shortly.

I think a very nice addition to our application would be a
before-after screenshot of sympy-live and sympy-gamma.

Stefan

On 29 October 2012 14:12, Matthew Rocklin <mrock...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've added myself to the mentor list. I'll probably be selective in the
> tasks I help out on though.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you are interested in helping out for GCI, at the very least add
>> your name to the bottom of
>> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/gci-2012-organization-application
>> (under the "Please tell us about how your organization has prepared
>> for Google Code-in..." question).  It would also help out if you
>> edited the application to update it and/or did some work
>> creating/tagging issues for tasks.
>>
>> So far, no one except for Sean seems to have done anything with this.
>> If no one helps out with this, I will take that to mean that we don't
>> have enough people interested in volunteering to be mentors, and I
>> won't submit the application.
>>
>> Aaron Meurer
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Google has announced the application period for Google Code-In 2012.
>> > As decided earlier
>> > (https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sympy/KrpvxADqAxM/discussion), we
>> > should apply.  See
>> > http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 for more
>> > information about it, as well as
>> > http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInformation2012.
>> >
>> > The application deadline is November 5, two weeks from today.  I need
>> > help doing two things:
>> >
>> > - Edit the application. I have started the organization application
>> > based on last year's at
>> > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GCI-2012-Organization-Application.
>> >  But we need to edit it to talk about our experiences with the program
>> > from last year.
>> >
>> > - We need to create tasks.  I have recreated the GCI labels in the
>> > issue tracker.  A couple of notes here:
>> >
>> > * There are only five categories this year.  They have consolidated
>> > outreach/research and documentation/training into single tasks, and
>> > they have eliminated translation tasks.  I haven't yet fixed this in
>> > the issue tracker (but anyone who can add labels can bulk edit issues,
>> > so feel free to do this).
>> >
>> > * They have removed the difficulty ratings.  All tasks should now have
>> > the same difficulty.  The metric that they are telling us is that a
>> > task should take an experienced project member (that's you guys)
>> > approximately two hours to complete.  Anything harder should be broken
>> > into multiple tasks.
>> >
>> > We can also create tasks for SymPy-Bot, which uses the GitHub issue
>> > tracker. See https://github.com/sympy/sympy-bot/issues?state=open.  I
>> > don't know how the permissions work with labels on GitHub, so let me
>> > know if you are unable to add labels to issues. SymPy Live and SymPy
>> > Gamma are also good sources for tasks (add these to the Google Code
>> > issue tracker).
>> >
>> > We need to have a good chunk of tasks ready by the 5th to show Google,
>> > but not all of them have to be created at that point. We do need to
>> > have a certain number of each type, though.  Additionally, this year,
>> > we can add tasks at any time, so there will not be a hard deadline for
>> > that later on like there was last year.
>> >
>> > - If you are interested in mentoring, please add your name to the
>> > bottom of the application.  I guess we should also create a mentors
>> > page like the one we had last year.  Also, go to google-melange.com
>> > and create a profile (you have to do it again even if you've mentored
>> > before, as it resets with each program).
>> >
>> > I would greatly appreciate help with this.
>> >
>> > Aaron Meurer
>>
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